• GregorGizeh
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    5 months ago

    Yes climate change all fine and well, but have you actually seen what they want us to do? Ride one of those gay bicycles to work and eat less beef. Next thing you know they want to put up renewable energy wind turbines in my neighborhood, that ruins the pretty landscape! No, I dont want to tighten ecological protections, why do you ask?

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      5 months ago

      Guys, is it gay to be strong and be self-reliant by transporting yourself with the power of your muscles?

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        5 months ago

        Well, if you put on a skimpy outfit that emphasises those muscles and smear yourself in oil before going out and self-transport using them, it might be a little bit gay …

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          5 months ago

          You’re confusing transportation with recreation. Real bike-riders wear street clothes.

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            5 months ago

            True: pure Transportation can’t really be gay or not be gay as it’s orthogonal to the subject of sexuality.

            However, nothing stops people from mixing some Recreation into their Transportation if they’re willing to lose some efficiency in the latter and I was just imagining how one could possibly do it for making it somehow “gay”.

            PS: Should I’ve put an /s in my previous post?

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              5 months ago

              PS: Should I’ve put an /s in my previous post?

              Nah, I got it. It’s just that even referencing misconceptions (e.g. that cycling is for lycra-clad wannabe-racers) derisively helps spread them, and unlike my previous comment, I couldn’t think of a way to rebut this one and be funny at the same time.

              In other words, it was really more of a “me” problem: promoting utility cycling is kinda my pet issue. I didn’t write it, but this pretty much captures the perspective I’m coming from and how strongly I feel about it.

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                5 months ago

                Well, I too am a great fan of cycling as a normal form of tranportation (and have done it for over a decade in both The Netherlands and the UK).

                It’s just that the challenge of “how to make cycling gay?” was too good for me to refrain from trying to come up with a “solution” for it ;)